When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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